60 Annfield Road, Dundee?

[breaky]

Sadly, there  is no number 60, unless it was empty at the time and not included.

Number 49 is followed by Martyrs Free Church, then "Blackheath House", then number 73 -  in one column on the page.

The second column has number 62 "Grayfield House", then number 60.

Only one of the two houses is named on the map,  that's "Greyfield House" with an "e", number 62, but it's on the West side of Annfield Road.

Blackheath House was probably the house on the East side - (Blackheath Place is the next street further along on the Hawkhill Road to the East of Annfield). 

No other Lorimers are listed.

I don't have an Ancestry subscription, but I think the 1881 census can be searched under street name there, so perhaps another Rootschat member might be able to help?  If you are looking for Dundee yourself on Scotlands people, then try Angus with the district "Liff" (Liff and Benvie") for 1901.

breaky

[Lisaw]

Good morning,

1881 census 60 Annfield Road:

David & Margaret Fairweather & family: David A., James, Christina, & Margaret, also Mom Agnes Will

George & Margaret McMillan & family: Robert, William, John, Mary, & Jemima

William & Eliza White & family: Eliza, John, James, Margaret, Eliza, & Cathrine.

Lisa

[Harry Peter Rose]

google Annfield House ....surrounding factories and homes have been demolished.. .the house remains as flats and you could actually stay as an exchange of homes guest!   GREAT HISTORY ABOUT THIS HOUSE!

[Harry Peter Rose]

A follow up to Annfield  House which I new well when I lived in Dundee it was mentioned today in
https://www.facebook.com/groups/664596423667561/

WHITE ROCK BC CANADA

[Harry Peter Rose]

google Annfield House ....surrounding factories and homes have been demolished.. .the house remains as flats and you could actually stay as an exchange of homes guest!   GREAT HISTORY ABOUT THIS HOUSE!

https://www.homeforexchange.com/listing/united-kingdom/dundee-2-br-flat-in-dundee-city-in-heritage-home......I am going to stay there

[HeatherConnie]

Here is a bit of the 1900 map of Dundee. I lived on the north side of Annfield Street at the junction with Peddie Street from 1962-66. That tenement is still there, but most of the rest of the street is long gone.

[David Boulding]

My mother's family (Boyd) appears to have lived up and down Annfield Rd. My mother was born at 45 Annfield Rd

My great great grandfather James Boyd (1815-1893) at 39 Annfield Rd and later at 2 Annfield Rd

Did anyone ever find some photos of the older street pre-demolition?

[markw78]

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Here is link to street map showing where No 60 was located...
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18.6&lat=56.45864&lon=-2.99076&layers=170&b=1&o=100

Also if you use https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk to search for your relatives name for age range...
under Valuation rolls you may find their records for what they were charged for rent... from what I seen there was 16 tenants in 1920... right up to the attic.......

Some of my annestors also lived at No 16 Annfield Road in 1911...

Good Luck with your research
Regards
Mark W

[Forfarian]

under Valuation rolls you may find their records for what they were charged for rent...

No, that's not what the figures in the valuation rolls mean. If you look carefully at them, there is a figure called 'rental' even for houses which were owned, not rented, by the people who lived in them.

They are a hypothetical figure arrived at by an assessor surveying the size and amenities of a building according to an arbitrary scale. These valuations were used to calculate the rates, that is, the local taxes levied on householders and businesses to pay for local public services, and they are not related to the rent that a tenant actually paid to his or her landlord.

from what I seen there was 16 tenants in 1920... right up to the attic.......

That's fairly typical of a tenement in a city centre, which might well have four floors with four separate self-contained flats (apartments) on each floor. More than four floors was less common until the advent of lifts (elevators) but there are still thousands of tenement blocks with stairs and no lifts in Scottish cities. I used to live in one such block in Edinburgh.